Dr. Nitzan Gonen Awarded Prestigious Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research

Dr. Nitzan Gonen of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University and a member of the Dangoor Center for Personalized Medicine won the Krill Prize for excellence in scientific research, awarded by the Wolf Foundation. The Krill Prize is awarded to outstanding academic faculty members and promising researchers from research universities in Israel who have demonstrated significant research breakthroughs and who are expected to lead research and academia in Israel in the future. Dr. Gonen received the prize for her research on understanding the regulation of the sex determination process in mammals, mediated both by coding genes as well as by the non-coding genome.

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